Seattle University School of Law is home to an outstanding faculty of committed teacher-scholars. This is a collection of selected scholarship from some of our inspiring thought leaders.
Submissions from 2001
Los Angeles as a Single-Cell Organism, Robert S. Chang
Game Theory and Customary International Law: A Response to Professors Goldsmith and Posner, Mark A. Chinen
Placid, Clear-Seeming Words: Some Realism about the New Formalism (With Particular Attention to Promissory Estoppel), Sidney DeLong
Beyond Eco-Imperialism: An Environmental Justice Critique of Free Trade, Carmen G. Gonzalez
Genealogy of a State-Engineered “Model Minority”: “Not Quite/Not White” South Asian Americans, Tayyab Mahmud
I Know that I Taught Them How To Do That, Laurel Oates
Submissions from 2000
Not in Front of the Children: Prohibition on Child Custody as Civil Branding for Criminal Activity, Deborah Ahrens
Silencing Culture and Culturing Silence: A Comparative Experience of Centrifugal Forces in the Ethnic Studies Curriculum, Steven W. Bender
Introduction: Performing LatCrit, Robert S. Chang and Natasha Fuller
A Symposium Tribute to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.: The Mentor and His Message, Margaret Chon
Erasing Race? A Critical Race Feminist View of Internet Identity Shifting, Margaret Chon
The Marketplace of Ideas in Cyberspace, Margaret Chon
Home From the Islands: Domestic Asset Protection Trust Alternatives Impact Traditional Estate and Gift Tax Planning Considerations, John K. Eason
Substantive Editing Versus Technical Editing: How Law Review Editors Do Their Job, Anne Enquist
Race, Reason and Representation, Tayyab Mahmud
Foreword: Re-Orienting Law and Sexuality, Tayyab Mahmud and Ratna Kapur
Hegemony, Coercion and Teeth Gritting Harmony: A Commentary on Law, Power and Culture in Franco’s Spain, Tayyab Mahmud and Ratna Kapur
Equity and Efficacy in Washington State's GMA Affordable Housing Goal, Henry McGee
Issues in Law Library Acquisitions: An Analysis, Kent Milunovich
Why Should the Prosecutor Get the Last Word?, John B. Mitchell
Ninth Amendment Adjudication: An Alternative To Substantive Due Process Analysis of Personal Autonomy Rights, Mark Niles
Beyond Communication: Writing as a Means of Learning, Laurel Oates
Delaware Corporation Law And Transaction Cost Engineering, Charles O'Kelley
Foreword: The Many Passions Of Teaching Corporations, Charles O'Kelley
Restoration Affecting Native Resources: The Place of Native Ecological Science, Catherine O'Neill
Variable Justice: Environmental Standards, Contaminated Fish, and "Acceptable” Risk to Native Peoples, Catherine O'Neill
First Amendment on Trial-The Libel Lawyer's Perspective, David M. Skover
Confronting the Limits of Gay Hate Crimes Activism: A Radical Critique, Dean Spade and Craig Willse
Health Care Reform in the Year 2000: The View from the Front of the Classroom, Ken Wing
Submissions from 1999
Sailing Through Designing Memo Assignments, Lorraine K. Bannai, Anne Enquist, Judith Maier, and Susan McClellan
Facing History, Facing Ourselves: Eric Yamamoto and the Quest for Justice, Robert S. Chang
Presidential Certifications in U.S. Foreign Policy Legislation, Mark A. Chinen
Introduction: Critical Race Praxis and Legal Scholarship, Margaret Chon
The Effect of Welfare Reform on Immigrant Children, Gillian Dutton
Critiquing and Evaluating Law Students' Writing: Advice from Thirty-Five Experts, Anne Enquist
A History of Writing Advisors at Law Schools: Looking at Our Past, Looking at Our Future, Anne Enquist and Jessie Grearson
Conclusion: Adapting the Seven Principles to Legal Education, Paula Lustbader
Principle 7: Good Practice Respects Diverse Talents and Ways of Learning, and Conclusion: Adapting the Seven Principles to Legal Education, Paula Lustbader
Colonialism and Modern Constructions of Race: A Preliminary Inquiry, Tayyab Mahmud
Postcolonial Imaginaries: Alternative Development or Alternatives to Development?, Tayyab Mahmud
The Past, Present and Future of Copyright Protection of Soundalike Recordings, Kent Milunovich
Narrative and Client-Centered Representation: What Is A True Believer To Do When His Two Favorite Theories Collide?, John B. Mitchell
Washington's Growth Management Revolution Goes to Court, Richard L. Settle
A Lesbian-centered Critique of Second-parent Adoptions, Julie Shapiro
De Facto Parents and the Unfulfilled Promise of the New ALI Principles, Julie Shapiro
Imperatives, Normativity, and the Law, Gregory Silverman
Apartheid as a Crime Against Humanity: A Submission to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Ronald Slye
Why Isn't This Man Smiling?, John W. Weaver
Submissions from 1998
Castles in the Sand: Balancing Public Custom and Private Ownership Interests on Oregon’s Beaches, Steven W. Bender
Gender Bias in the American Bar Association Journal: Impact on the Legal Profession, Marilyn Berger and Kari A. Robinson
Dreaming in Black and White: Racial-Sexual Policing in The Birth of a Nation, The Cheat, and Who Killed Vincent Chin?, Robert S. Chang
Who's Afraid of Tiger Woods?, Robert S. Chang
Casebooks and Constitutional Competency, David E. Engdahl
Resurrecting the General Utilities Doctrine, Lily Kahng
Standing on the Corner--Trying to Find Our Way, W. H. Knight
The Power of Narrative: Listening to the Initial Client Interview, Raven Lidman
The Guardian Ad Litem in Child Custody Cases: The Contours of Our Judicial System Stretched Beyond Recognition, Raven Lidman and Betsy Hollingsworth
Teach in Context: Responding to Diverse Student Voices Helps All Students Learn, Paula Lustbader
The Dream That Will Not Die: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Continuing American Revolution, Henry McGee
The P.R.C.'s Negotiable Instruments Law: An Instrument for Facilitating Private Economic Activity or Monetary Control?, Kara Phillips and Amy Sommers
“To Learn and Make Respectable Hereafter:” The Litchfield Law School in Cultural Context, Andrew Siegel
Submissions from 1997
Preface: Law in (Case)books, Law (School) in Action: The Case for Casebook Reviews, Janet Ainsworth
Fostering Diversity in the Legal Profession: A Model for Preparing Minority and Other Non-Traditional Students for Law School, Lorraine K. Bannai and Marie Eaton
Direct Democracy and Distrust: The Relationship between Language Law Rhetoric and the Language Vigilantism Experience, Steven W. Bender
Foreword: Toward a Radical and Plural Democracy, Robert S. Chang
Racial Cross-Dressing, Robert S. Chang
Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination, Robert S. Chang and Keith Aoki
Foreword: Citizenship and Its Discontents - Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination (Part II), Robert S. Chang, Keith Aoki, and Ibrahim Gassama
Nothing and Everything: Race, Romer, and (Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual) Rights, Robert S. Chang and Jerome Culp
Acting Upon Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics by Lisa Lowe- A Review Colloquy, Margaret Chon
Being Between: A Review of CHINESE WOMEN TRAVERSING DIASPORA: MEMOIRS, ESSAYS, AND POETRY, Margaret Chon
Introduction, Margaret Chon
Radical Plural Democracy and the Internet, Margaret Chon
The New Requirement of Enforcement Reliance in Commercial Promissory Estoppel: Section 90 as Catch-22, Sidney DeLong
An Agnostic's Bible Contract and Related Obligation: Theory, Doctrine, and Practice, 3d Edition by Robert S. Summers and Robert A. Hillman, Sidney W. DeLong
Keynote Colloquy: Finding Justice in the Internet Dimension, Hon. Alex Kozinski
Diogenes Wanders the Superhighway: A Proposal for Authentication of Publicly Disseminated Documents on the Internet, Kelly Kunsch
Construction Sites, Building Types, and Bridging Gaps: A Cognitive Theory of the Learning Progression of Law Students, Paula Lustbader
From Dreams to Reality: The Emerging Role of Law School Academic Support, Paula Lustbader
Migration, Identity & the Colonial Encounter, Tayyab Mahmud
A Clinical Textbook?, John B. Mitchell
Beating the Odds: Reading Strategies of Law Students Admitted Through Alternative Admissions Programs, Laurel Oates
Education's Promise, Laurel Oates and Sam Wineberg
Single-Sex Education After United States v. Virginia, Catherine O’Neill
Socio-Economic Rights and the South African Transition: The Role of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Ronald Slye
Submissions from 1996
Categories and Culture: On the 'Rectification of Names' in Comparative Law, Janet Ainsworth
On Seeing Chinese Law from a Chinese Point of View: An Appreciative Look at the Scholarly Career of Professor William Jones, Janet Ainsworth
Consumer Protection for Latinos: Overcoming Language Fraud and English Only in the Marketplace, Steven W. Bender
The Use of Offender Characteristics In Guideline Sentencing: A Laboratory Report From Washington State, David Boerner
Eulogy for Jim Beaver February 29, 1996, James E. Bond
Tribute to James E. Beaver, Melinda J. Branscomb
Passion and the Asian American Legal Scholar, Robert S. Chang
Reverse Racism!: Affirmative Action, the Family, and the Dream that Is America, Robert S. Chang
The End of Innocence or Politics after the Fall of the Essential Subject, Robert S. Chang
The Nativist's Dream of Return, Robert S. Chang
Chon on Chen on Chang, Margaret Chon
New Wine Bursting From Old Bottles: Collaborative Internet Art, Joint Works, and Entrepreneurship, Margaret Chon
Autonomy and Death, Annette E. Clark